Sheila Dikshit

Sheila Dikshit (31 March 1938-20 July 2019) was Chief Minister of Delhi from 3 December 1998 to 28 December 2013, succeeding Sushma Swaraj and preceding Arvind Kejriwal.

Biography
Sheila Dikshit was born in Kapurthala, Punjab, India in 1938, and she served in the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly from 1984 to 1989 as the INC MP for Kannauj. From 1998 to 2008, she served in the Legislative Assembly for Gole Market, and she was also elected Chief Minister of Delhi, serving from 1998 to 2013. Her party was wiped out in the 2013 Delhi legislative elections, and she briefly served as Governor of Kerala in 2014. She died in New Delhi in 2019 at the age of 81.